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Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by bspammer on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:47AM (#35480230)
Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by teshigahara on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:17AM (#35480430)
I also got very "ChatGPT" vibes from that comment but thought I was being too paranoid by the last paragraph
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by willriches on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:23AM (#35480463)
I passed their comment to ChatGPT 3.5 and it seemed confident that ChatGPT wrote it.
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by codetrotter on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:35AM (#35480535)
I don’t think ChatGPT can tell if something was written by ChatGPT. At least not reliably.
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by padolsey on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:38AM (#35480555)
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by sheepscreek on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:52AM (#35480640)
ChatGPT is probably not trained for this. The classifier seems like a different model/product. Can access it in the playground here:

https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by Karunamon on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:37AM (#35480547)
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Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by neals on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:51AM (#35480634)
You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me!

But on a more serious note, I think it's important to recognize that while AI has made incredible strides in recent years, there is still a lot of work to be done on the creative side. Many texts generated by AI tend to have a similar structure or tone, and it's not always easy to tell them apart from human-generated text.

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by ilyt on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:58AM (#35480676)
The true test is "is it actual marketing-speeech or chatgpt". There are few easy things to catch like

>and this has resulted in real tangible benefits such as better database connection handling, faster view rendering, and improved security posture.

No actual honest tech person would ever say "security posture"

It also generally read like someone trying to sell tech to managers. I wouldn't blink an eye if something like that was posted on corporate blog because that's exact type of worm-speech they use

Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by cutler on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:39AM (#35480976)
Am I the only one already bored ****less by everything ChatGPT?
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by efxhoy on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:57AM (#35480663)
What prompt did you use? I immediately smelled chatgpt from the comment too. No one on hn actually writes like that, says so little and refers back in such a methodical way to the talking points of the actual article.
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by aczerepinski on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:59AM (#35480679)
This one is also gpt. Can we please keep hn comments human only?
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by neals on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:09AM (#35480746)
I apologize fellow human. The world has changed, the genie is out, and all that is left is bullet-point communication.
Re:Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails by rco8786 on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:58AM (#35480668)
Got the same vibes. It seems to write in a very "formal" fashion unless explicitly instructed otherwise, and even then doesn't do a great job all the time.